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Nirvana front man solo album reissue Market Square Records have a first time reissue of the first solo outing by 1960's cult pop/psych act Nirvana front man Patrick Campbell Lyons' "Me & My Friend". The now hard-to-find 1973 album comes here with extra tracks from Nirvana's equally hard-to-find 1972 release "Songs of Love & Praise" "Me & My Friend" (MSMCD111; distributed in the UK by Koch) marks a distant starshine of the solar flare that was Nirvana - a collective of musicians formed by Patrick Campbell Lyons (an Irishman) and Alex Spyropoulos (a Greek) in the still swinging London of the late 1960s. Rainbow Chaser, the Nirvana single charted in 1968 and set the agenda, with its tale of cloud-travelling and good-time seeking. Campbell Lyons took the band on without Alex in 1970 with "Local Anaesthetic", 1972's "Song Of Love And Praise" (a hard to find record today) and in 1973, his first solo album, "Me & My Friend" - copies now as rare as hen's teeth! All of "Me & My Friend" is here for the first time since 1973 with almost all of "Songs Of Love And Praise" plus a previously unreleased extra track. The lavish "Songs Of …" sessions - with their 60-piece orchestra, augmented by members of Jade Warrior together with some of the finest sessions men around (including drummer Barry Morgan and bassist Herbie Flowers) complement the laid-back summery rock of "Me & My Friend", which features support from rock act Snafu, and former Nirvana cellist Sylvie Schuster, amongst others.
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